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Boris Vladimirovich Stomakhin (Russian: Борис Владимирович Стомахин), (born August 24, 1974, Moscow), is a Russian radical politician, former editor of Samizdat periodicals, and notorious opposition leader.
Journalism
Boris Stomakhin was editor of newspaper "Radikalnaya Politika" since 2000. He was also one of most active participants of Chechen internet newspaper Kavkaz Center. He also issued a great number of Samizdat periodicals.
Political career
He was a leader of marginal political group "Revolutionary Contact Association" (RCA). Other members of this organization are Pavel Kantor, Dmitry Tarasov, Ludmila Evstifeeva, and Pavel Luzakov.
Stomakhin organized numerous demonstrations against the Russian Federation government. He was ordered to pass the psychiatric expertise in Moscow Serbsky Institute for the identification of mental disorders due to his publications and political activities. For one year he was fugitive from justice trying to receive an asylum status in Ukraine. But eventually he was denied asylum status from Ukranian government.
Arrest and conviction
He was arrested on March 21 2006 in Moscow. It was reported that he tried to escape again during his arrest and fell down from the fourth floor of his building. His spine and bones were broken. According to Stomakhin's lawyer Alexei Golubev, "He has been kept in a cell all this time, despite the fact that he is practically paralyzed." Psychiatric expertise found that Stomakhin is competent.
He was sentenced to five years of prison for igniting religious and national hatred, promoting violent change of constitutional regime, defamatory statements, and extremist propaganda, according to the official court sentence. He claimed that modern Russia is a totalitarian state and therefore must be destroyed, criticized Russians as a "nation of occupiers", and compared President Vladimir Putin to Saddam Hussein and Slobodan Milosevic.
Human rights activist Svetlana Gannushkina and dissident Valeria Novodvorskaya argued that Stomakhin has only exercised his right of free speech and did nothing violent, and therefore he is a peaceful political dissident prosecuted by authorities. Journalist Vladimir Abarinov decsribes this story as a crude manipulation and falsification by the Russian authorities. The criminal case was opened previoulsly twice but dismissed due to lack of evidence. Third time, the case was opened based on publication not written by Stomakhin .
External links
- Official Court Sentence on Russian language dated 20.11.2006
- Conviction of Boris Stomakhin: Opinions (Russian)
- Conviction
- Novodvorskaya opinion -1
- Novodvorskaya opinion - 2
- Maksim Sokolov opinion
- Articles written by Boris Stomakin
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